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    Final Examination

    EPGP-404

    Environmental Governance and Sustainability

    Year 2021

    Duration -2.30 hours Marks: 50 marks

    Part A: Short Answer Questions

    Answer ANY FOUR Questions -Each question will carry 5 marks.

    Please give the answer to the question in NO MORE THAN 250 words.

    1. Explain some of the important measures that corporate firms in India should initiate
    in order to deal with the global warming problems?
    2. Critically analyse the role of ‘public interest litigation’ (PIL) in improving the
    environmental quality in India. How do we strengthen it?
    3. Critically analyse the following statement: ‘There is a huge governance failure in the
    area of pollution control in India’. What alternative governance mechanism would
    you suggest?
    4. How could local elites influence the outcomes of community-based management of
    common pool resources?
    5. Critically explain the definition and scope of the Environmental Kuznet Curve.
    6. In the context of environment-poverty linkage, explain the difference between
    livelihoods environmentalism and lifestyle environmentalism.

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    Part B: Essay Type Questions

    Please give the answer to the question in NO MORE THAN 1000 WORDS.

    Question 1. Most of water bodies in India experience depletion and degradation due to multiple
    institutional failures. Explain how do you use the following instruments to manage the
    water bodies in an efficient and sustainable manner? Use appropriate diagrams and
    numerical examples.

    1. Pigouvian Tax and Subsidy (10 marks)


    2. Coasian Property Rights (5 marks)

    (OR)

    What are the various contextual conditions that defines the scope for achieving positive
    outcomes through community based natural resource management? Mention a list of
    Design Principles that contributes to successful collective action for management of
    common pool resources. (8 marks +7 marks)

    Question 2. “Payment for Ecosystem Services’ (PES) can effectively contribute to sustainable
    management of environmental resources and bring in win-win outcomes for all
    the stakeholders”. Critically analyze this statement by taking the case of water
    scarcity (or Air Pollution) in India.(15 marks)

    (OR)

    “Groundwater deterioration and depletion is a result of governance failure. It is


    also an outcome of mismatch of the nature of resource and the associated property
    rights. Today India needs a plethora of mechanisms for strengthening
    groundwater governance”. Critically reflect on the above statements. (15 marks)

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